On August 27, 2014, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare's Division of Public Health (DPH) was notified of two cases of cryptosporidiosis in siblings aged <3 years. Idaho's Southwest District Health (SWDH) investigated and found that both children had consumed raw (unpasteurized) goat milk produced at a dairy licensed by the Idaho State Department of Agriculture (ISDA) and purchased at a ...

the present study investigates the gap between the daily milk production potential and the effective milk yields in six herds. these two parameters and their changes were observed in the gharb irrigation scheme (northwest of morocco), during a five months study period. they were analyzed in relation to the changes in the rations of the cows and in their live weights. results reveal that under c...

This article examines an ICT-based intervention (known as the DrumNet project) that has succeeded in integrating smallholder-resource and poor farmers into a higher value agricultural chain. The article assesses the design of the project, and how it resolves the smallholder farmers’ idiosyncratic market failures and examines member-farmers’ marketing margins. The article finds that the design o...

the economic importance of tick infestation on camels are important as they are important meat and milk producer animals in the less vegetation area of iran and their health and production are greatly affected by the high tick infestation. in this investigation, tick infestations on camels (camelus dromedarius) were determined in qeshm island, iran. a total number of 912 adult ticks (472 males ...

Invasions of gastrointestinal nematodes in dairy cows may affect animals productivity. The most frequently detected internal parasite of dairy cattle is Ostertagia ostertagi. The objective of this study was to determine O. ostertagi invasion extensiveness in selected herds of dairy cattle, with special consideration to cows being in the first lactation, and to analyze the milk yield and content...

the paper determined optimum farm plan for food security among smallholder farmers in imo state, nigeria. data were collected with structured and validated questionnaire from 180 smallholder crops farmers in imo state. data were analyzed using descriptive statistics (mean, frequency distribution and percentages), budgetary analysis and linear programming model. results show that the mean age of...

The emergence of satellite sensors that can routinely observe millions of individual smallholder farms raises possibilities for monitoring and understanding agricultural productivity in many regions of the world. Here we demonstrate the potential to track smallholder maize yield variation in western Kenya, using a combination of 1-m Terra Bella imagery and intensive field sampling on thousands ...

The present study was conducted to compare the carbon footprint of milk produced in 75 smallholder farms and two organised buffalo Hisar district Haryana using Life Cycle Assessment approach. Primary data collected from farmers farm managers for study. Functional unit one litre with system boundary being ‘Cradle-to-farm gate’. Methodology prescribed by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ...

Therapeutic efficacy of mastitis can result in frustrating clinical outcomes, depending on the causative pathogen, the severity and duration of infection, and expectations of the dairy producer. In herds that have controlled contagious mastitis, costs incurred from clinical mastitis likely account for the largest proportion of total herd mastitis costs, and in some instances, a majority of thes...